# Monkey World

- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Area:** 65 acre
- **Opened:** 1987
- **Website:** [https://monkeyworld.org monkeyworld.org]
- **Location:** Dorset, England
- **Zoo Name:** Monkey World
- **Date Opened:** 7 August 1987
- **Num Animals:** 250
- **Num Species:** 20

On Saturday 17 March 2007 Jim Cronin died in a New York hospital aged 55 years from liver cancer. His widow Alison Cronin and the staff at Monkey World have continued to run the centre.

![Photo of Monkey World](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Monkey_World_logo.png)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_World (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)